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Michael A. Terrell wrote:
Surely you're not serious? The A77 is a domestic machine that is at
least 25 years old. And is hopeless to edit on so never the choice of
radio stations. Studer are the pro side of Revox and made many
suitable 1/4" machines that were common in radio - once - but all the
stations I know now use DAW based systems.


The Studer/Revox A77 R-R tape deck is 40 years old. It was
introduced to the market in 1967. It was available to radio stations
before it was sold to the public.

One of the primary functions of a 1/4" machine in a radio studio is for
editing, and the A77 is hopeless for that. Studer already made suitable
pro machines so I really can't see why they'd have aimed it at radio
stations. Fine machine though it is, it simply isn't suitable. I suppose
it might have been used for office listening given it was one of the few
domestic machines that took NAB spools. But that's not really radio use.

As to tape still being used, MiniDisc was a good and cheap replacement for
that before computer based systems became the norm.

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